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Topics: Choosing a wife Fishing regulations Games, dances or songs How to be a good person Living on a chicken ranch New modes of transportation Not wasting food Paiute hospitality Personal security Pinenut prayer Reservations Storytelling, legends, and myths Water rights Women's issues, including first menses; pregnancy; childbirth Objects and structures: Baskets Cradleboards Deer hoof rattle Fishing boats Possessions of the dead Rabbit skin blankets Steam baths and sweathouses Tule houses Willow fences Family genealogies: Frazier family genealogy O'Neil family genealogy Vidovich family genealogy Winnemucca family genealogy Genealogical information on various tribal members Places mentioned: Anaho Island Goldfield Ione Lida Lovelock Mountain Mason Valley Nixon Pyramid Lake Sand Mountain Schurz Stewart Indian School (Carson City) Summit Lake Sutcliffe Tonopah Truckee River Winnemucca Lake Language: English Paiute Shoshone

Persons mentioned: Alida Bowler Bing Crosby Captain Ben Captain Dave Captain Wasson Indian Agent Lorenzo Creel J. D. Oliver Jack Wilson Jim Butler Johnson Sides Lee Winnemucca Natches Winnemucca Raymond Harris Sarah Winnemucca Wovoka Wuzzie George Interviewees: Alice Vidovich Birdie Dave Daisy Aster Dr. Ralph Payne Dr. Sven Liljeblad Edna Jones Essie Allen Ethel O'Neil Helen Williams Herbert Pancho Jean Smith Jennie, a Shoshone woman Josie French Katie Frazier Mabel Wright Paulina Mamie John Marion Paddy Minnie Houten Nellie Emm Nina Winnemucca Ray Alcorn Rosie Moose Ruth Houghten Tim Hooper Wuzzie George Activities: Attending school Cooking Fishing Gathering pinenuts Gathering wild onions and cattails Hide tanning Hunting antelope and deer Hunting mudhens Hunting rabbits Making rabbitskin blankets Pinenutting Pottery (making pots) Preparing bows and arrows Preparing pinenut soup Preparing venison jerky Preparing bows and arrows Preparing pinenut soup Seed and berry gathering and processing Skinning rabbits Steam baths Tattooing visit to the Nixon cemetery Visit to the Nixon cemetery Events: Area movie making Death and funerals Finding gold in Tonopah Illness Marriages, divorces and inheriting 1915 earthquake in Pleasant Valley A bad winter The fighting between tribes The George Cook murder The train wreck near Verdi Keyword search:

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